Thousands of active and retired firefighters and family and friends again forsook the larger ceremony downtown to attend the unofficial 9/11 firefighter memorial service at the Firemen’s Monument on Riverside Drive, marking the extraordinary sacrifice of 343 Fire Department members on the day of the terrorist attacks.
Front and center were the 320 Probationary Firefighters who will graduate from the Fire Academy Sept. 24 and get their field assignments. In the mix were “13 of what we call legacy Firefighters, who are the sons or daughters of firefighters who have given their lives in the service of the City of New York,” said Leroy McGinnis, the vice president of the Uniformed Firefighters Association.
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